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nickdanger3d
Trending Lyricist I
October 4, 2017

Please keep the option to lower all sonos speakers while talking to alexa

  • October 4, 2017
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I have echos and sonos in rooms that are adjacent, and i noticed in your email saying that you'll make it so just the room you're talking to turns down. I'd prefer that you left an option in to lower the volume on all speakers. As I said, having echo and sonos in adjacent rooms means that speakers in other rooms can still make it difficult for alexa to understand my commands.
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    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    November 12, 2017
    Actually, it would be ideal if I could group the Sonos One Alexa to turn down certain rooms since I’ve got more than one and could like to kill sound in groups depending on which Alexa I’m talking to.

    Agreed. If we could use Alexa grouping of Sonos 1's and Echo devices and only those devices in the group would duck if any other device in the group was activated, This would then support the OP's request and the other points raised within this post. Thoughts?

    Yes I would be happy if the 'ducking' occurred on an assigned main/nearest Sonos Room, plus any other room(s) 'grouped' with it... I’m guessing though that some others may prefer to choose and assign which Sonos Rooms should be ducked.

    I assume it will depend on what can best be achieved during the Sonos/Amazon collaboration in order to achieve 'a majority' of customer satisfaction.
    Ian_S
    Prodigy III
    November 12, 2017
    There are lots of options that need to be configurable as different users will want different behaviour. I would like Sonos to do this through Alexa enabled smart groups, and if you don't want Alexa to only duck the local speaker, if you don't add the Sonos speakers to any smart group then it would seem reasonable to duck all speakers.

    Would love to be part of this beta as I'm suffering badly from this issue.
      Petebanham
      Contributor I
      November 23, 2017
      I would rather we could selectively duck as ducking all speakers in the house is a real pain. The Alexa enabled groups would seem the best way of keeping everyone happy....
      accguy
      accguy
      Lyricist III
      December 2, 2017
      +1 on associating each Alexa enabled device with certain Sonos speakers. It's the only sane thing to do. All or nothing seems like someone not wanting to write the grouping code...
      danzuck
      Lyricist I
      January 14, 2018
      +1 very annoying. My kids play with their Alexa's, especially during parties and the music is constantly "ducking" in kitchen. Need to disable skill (wired speakers)
      accguy
      accguy
      Lyricist III
      January 14, 2018
      Yup. Disabled this Non Feature..
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